Comments on: Raiders draft: Al's wacky first-day picks pierce Cable's credibilityhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2009/04/26/raiders-draft-wacky-first-day-picks-diminish-cable/
with Tim KawakamiFri, 09 Dec 2016 10:46:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3By: 9er4lifehttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2009/04/26/raiders-draft-wacky-first-day-picks-diminish-cable/comment-page-1/#comment-27672
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:49:04 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/?p=4368#comment-27672I’d like to thank the Chokeland Nation for making a major f up and giving us the 49er faithfuls a great pick….i think al had his o2 up to high on both the 1st and 2nd round…go niners and thanks again for the pick
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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:06:54 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/?p=4368#comment-27671#33 David Densmore said it all. Until Davis goes away this franchise will
keep losing 11 games every year. You guys who are defending Davis have
you been watching the same games the rest of us have??
Is this team winning with all the failed draft picks of the last few years??
Delusional is all you defenders of Davis the record proves you wrong.
11 loses every year for years and yet you defend this guy.
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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:52:19 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/?p=4368#comment-27670All the cying is making sick grow a pair…get a life …. please go cheer for giants or cards ……. just win laddies
lets see how Raiders do this year but if Bey does well this season just remeber all this crying…..if he stinks i’ll say so but have some fun
try kissing a girl its fun boys….see ya in fall
p.s. to 49ner fans kiss a guy i guess its cool if thats your thing ….peace
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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:37:23 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/?p=4368#comment-27669Well it looks like the Raiders traded down to grab the guy they wanted, safety Mike Mitchell, and got him just two picks before Chicago was going to nab him. And another team says they were going to take him in the third. So it sounds like the Raiders did just what you’ve been advocating Tim – and now where’s the love?!

Only time will tell how any of these picks work out. No receiver comes with a guarantee, including Crabtree (nine other teams passed on him, and no one came through to trade up to grab him). But I can’t fault the Raiders for wanting a hard-hitting safety – run defense is still a problem, and Gibril Wilson was not the answer.

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
George Santayana

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:42:38 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/?p=4368#comment-27667I doubt Davis will consider this year’s draft truly great, because he couldn’t get that fast kicker in the first round. And hey, I can just see Cable saying “We had no idea Stryker Sulak would still be available when it came our time to pick him! He just fell into our laps, like manna from heaven!” :–)

How any Raider fan can look objectively at Davis’ picks this year and think he has a brain left defies belief. How can an 80-year-old semi-invalid on his own do better drafting than 31 other functioning organizations? Between naps and being fed by his nanny, where does he get the time to come up with unheralded gems like Matt Shaughnessy and “the Stryker”. I guess he still knows more than anyone else out there.

However, twin fast receivers who can’t catch and 5 stiffs does not a draft make!! This team is doomed as long as Al remains the NFL’s Joseph Stalin.

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:38:44 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/?p=4368#comment-27666@BlackT… Sux to be a fan of any other team?? I’m thinking life is pretty good right now as a Patriots fan. No, when the whole league is laughing at you, your pants are at your ankles and your dobber is down, dude.

The Raiders drafted a guy who has great speed but only caught 13 TD’s in his whole college career. Not season. His career. The next guy they picked wasn’t even invited to the NFL scouting combine. Wasn’t even an all-conference player at his position in a weak ass conference.

peace

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:40:03 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/?p=4368#comment-27635The Raiders are the first team in NFL history to lose 11 or more games